Katrina Adams Quotes
I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in my over then the response of the crowd is something different. He is among top 5 dangerous players in current Cricket. I place my self at 6
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
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We cannot and should not be reduced to just one sliver of ourselves, as it skews the truth of our lived experiences.
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I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
